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On 12 November 2004, the Council for Electronic Media, constituted in April 2004 according to the Law on Electronic Media, issued a decision concerning the protection of minors and human dignity. The public prosecutor for children had filed a complaint before the Council against the broadcasting company RTL d.o.o. (Ltd.) due to an alleged breach of the provisions of the Law on Electronic Media. It had been claimed that RTL broke the provisions of Art. 15 para. 2, para. 3 of the Law on Electronic Media by broadcasting the reality show "Big Brother". According to the complaint there had been scenes...

Following a consultation initiated in July 2004, The UK Office of Communications (OFCOM) has announced amendments to Section 11 (8) of the Broadcast Television Advertising Standards Code. This sub-section deals with advertising of alcoholic beverages. Section 11 in general deals with "rules for a range of categories which can have implications for individuals or for society as a whole."The changes are justified as strengthening protection for under-18 year olds, i.e.," ...reducing the appeal of alcohol advertising to children and young teenagers." The new rules restrict adverts which connect alcohol...

At its meeting on 23 November 2004, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for Youth Media Protection - KJM) approved the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter e.V. (voluntary self-monitoring body for multimedia service providers - FSM) as a voluntary self-monitoring body in the telemedia field, in the sense of the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrages (Inter-State Agreement on Youth Media Protection - JMStV). According to Article 19.3 JMStV, voluntary self-monitoring bodies may be approved by the KJM, subject to certain conditions. Members of the FSM now have the opportunity...

On 8 November 2004, the Moniteur belge (Belgian official gazette) published the new order of the Government of the French-speaking Community of 1 July 2004 on protecting minors from television programmes likely to be damaging to their physical, mental or moral development. From 1 January 2005, this order will replace the previous order of 12 October 2000, which defines the identification markings currently used for television programmes (see IRIS 2001-2: 5). A new system of markings will therefore be used by television broadcasters in the French-speaking Community. As it had done through previous...

In its report on Turkey's progress towards EU accession, the European Commission describes inter alia the legal situation in the audiovisual sphere. The yardstick for assessing the situation in Turkey is the EC's "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. As an example of progress made in this field, the report highlights a regulation adopted in January 2004 concerning radio and television broadcasts in languages and dialects traditionally used by Turkish citizens, as a result of which it is now possible to broadcast nationwide radio and TV programmes in languages other than Turkish. However, the...